Happy 70th Birthday, AT

Seventy years ago today, on August 14, 1937, a six-man Civilian Conservation Corps crew completed the final link of the 2,025-mile Appalachian Trail: a 2-mile section in Maine on a ridge connecting Spaulding and Sugarloaf mountains, 186 miles south of Katahdin. Without fanfare the crew moved on to building shelters.
“Rather than a sense of exultation, this situation brings a fuller realizat...